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Hands-On Test Management with Jira

By : Afsana Atar
Book Image

Hands-On Test Management with Jira

By: Afsana Atar

Overview of this book

Hands-On Test Management with Jira begins by introducing you to the basic concepts of Jira and takes you through real-world software testing processes followed by various organizations. As you progress through the chapters, the book explores and compares the three most popular Jira plugins—Zephyr, Test Management, and synapseRT. With this book, you’ll gain a practical understanding of test management processes using Jira. You’ll learn how to create and manage projects, create Jira tickets to manage customer requirements, and track Jira tickets. You’ll also understand how to develop test plans, test cases, and test suites, and create defects and requirement traceability matrices, as well as generating reports in Jira. Toward the end, you’ll understand how Jira can help the SQA teams to use the DevOps pipeline for automating execution and managing test cases. You’ll get to grips with configuring Jira with Jenkins to execute automated test cases in Selenium. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of how to model and implement test management processes using Jira.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Reusing test cases across different projects


Now that we have learned how to write new test cases, let's look at how we can efficiently reuse existing ones for the project.

For a completely new project or release that doesn't have any dependent or related artifacts from past projects or releases, the test team must design all the test cases for all of the feature requests being released. However, as the product evolves and undergoes multiple releases, some of the common untouched features remain stable. This makes way for an opportunity to reuse test cases for future releases.

There are various reasons why you would want to reuse existing test cases:

  • If you have a new team member joining the team, the existing test cases can help them familiarize with the product by going through the existing test cases.
  • It reduces the overhead of creating all the test cases for the unchanged and already verified functionality from the previous releases. Testers can simply pull the existing valid test cases...